Henry Rollins "Provoked" - April 17 @ Norwood Concert Hall

Henry Rollins, agent provocateur, renaissance man and, lets face it.. really funny guy, returns to Australia this April for his umpteenth Spoken Word tour. Henry was last here in January 2006 as part of the travelling Big Day Out circus - the first performer to appear on the BDO in such a capacity - enthralling thousands as only Henry and his sense of truth, justice and the humorous way can. More recently that that, Henry has been seen in Australia hosting his own TV show - The Henry Rollins Show - aired regularly on the Movie Extra cable TV network. Henry has also been seen in the movie Wrong Turn 2 (recently released to DVD) and will shortly begin work on a new movie, the tentatively titled ICE 44 with Ray Winstone an Cuba Gooding Jr. In between times Henry has toured the US and Europe performing spoken word and continues to visit the war torn Middle East entertaining and bringing some respite to the troops stationed there “Not many people can hold a crowd of hundreds transfixed for three hours using only a microphone and a flat black backdrop, but Renaissance Man Henry Rollins is one of them,” was the Reno-Gazette Journal’s assessment of PROVOKED. “Rollins’ talks are so fluid, it’s hard to tell how much is planned how much is off the cuff.” “A hard-core renaissance man who clocks life with military precision,” said the Boston Globe. “The 46-year-old former Black Flag frontman rants, raves, reminisces, opines, and editorializes…during his latest and well-titled show, Provoked." “On stage, Rollins barks a fierce oratory about things like the Iraq war and the state of corporate media, while weaving in anecdotes about his latest adventures in places like Syria and Australia and then gushing over his love for authors like Tolstoy and Hemingway,” adds the Santa Cruz Sentinel. “He goes a mile a minute, always astute, hilarious and intense.” Simply put, “Rollins’ spoken-word shows have become a lengthy but exhilarating forum,” writes syndicated columnist Alan Sculley.

Thursday 17-04-2008
Venue Norwood Concert Hall
Prices from $50.20

sweet

 

urgh i wanna go soooo bad

After missing him at BDO i said id see him next time, here tis...

yeah its spoken word tho, not the rollins band! will still be awesome...i love his poetry b prose

the man is a genius

Personally i can't stand this guy...

At least with the Rollins Band the guitars make it difficult to understand his self-important bullshit diatribes...

Henry Rocks!

Saw him last time and he was funny as hell!

yeah, i remember my mate sarah hooking me up a ticket to his spoken word thing around 2000 at the thebby i think!!!
he talked about eric the pilot, among other things, funny funny shit... he's a good bloke... still eats out of the saucepan over the sink no doubt... true soldier of the earth !!

is he still good?

some well reputed mates of mine were saying it wont be that fantastic and that I shouldn't bother going

it's actually up to you isn't it ?
you can get his spoken word stuff on cd, and probably online somewhere, so don't go if its gonna mess up your financial runnings, it's refreshing to see someone like him get open on his personal life, even the whole " gay " issue that he had to endure , around the time he was doing a special duet of " funky town " with rue paul, he gave me an insight into how the industry consistently tries to undermine cats like him, and the crazy things he has to deal with from complete strangers, it's a million and one lessons in life almost, i learnt alot by just chillin and listening to him tell us stories about his experiences, i look up to him on certain things, especially when the music industry is concerned, he doesn't drink, smoke, swear much or do drugs, maybe your mates were put off by that, couldn't relate to him or just didn't like being confronted with a guy on stage by himself with nothing but a chair, mic and some water... and clothes of course
who knows... but yeah, he has been out several ( 2 or 3 ) times before, so it won't be the last...